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In her defense of the surveillance state (sorry if I've misunderstood but that's what it sounds like!) at CCTV conspiracy mania is a very middle-class disorder there's one little sentence that gives it all away. She says:

There is a sad lack of voices to praise the benign state these days.

Maybe that's because there is no such thing as "the benign state", now or at any point in history that immediately comes to mind.

...I am an "irrelevant bystander", as are approximately 59,800,000 other members of the public, and I simply do not believe you are going to do anything in the next twelve months to change that, much as I would want you to, so that we never have a party place-person appointed to your executive office by a dwindling group of political hacks and activists ever again.

So if that was all that is holding you back, I give you leave to go now.

By the way - thanks for sorting out the blockade of Lebanon, today. That was you was it? I would never have known.

Interesting: Tony seems to be lying even about that.

No doubt most readers will be unaware of the fact that nicotine is quite a nice drug to use when indulging in certain other illegal drugs. That's why you see people off their tits in clubs on E or coke smoking away even when you know they're not really smokers. The stimulant, nicotine, tops up the effects of these other drugs, sustaining or boosting the high.

It will be interesting to see if people take to sucking on a nicotine replacement lozenge or chewing gum instead. Maybe such oral delivery mechanisms for your chosen poison will become even more acceptable. Perhaps even make people think differently about "popping a pill" of something else.